Celebrity Big Brother UK - 2014

The Celebrity Big Brother 2014 start date has been confirmed for January 3.

The new series of the Channel 5 show will launch on the first Friday of the new year from 9PM.

Emma Willis will be back hosting the show despite also joining to The Voice UK, which will also air in January on BBC One.

Meanwhile, the new look CBB house has had a high class upgrade featuring chandeliers, a grand fireplace and opulent surroundings, with insiders comparing it to a ‘Russian palace’.

But despite all of its glitz glamour, is this house simply a gilded cage? The house may look inviting but once in Big Brother’s grasp, housemates will learn the hard way that Big Brother is the boss.

As usual the show will be packed full of twists and turns, starting from the get-go, with Big Brother bosses promising that Big Brother will be unleashing his biggest twist yet on launch night.

When it comes to the Celebrity Big Brother 2014 line up, some of the stars (sort of) already linked to the latest series include model Katie Price, Apprentice star and This Morning big mouth Katie Hopkins, former Strictly star Nancy Dell’Olio and comic Jim Davidson.

Hmmm, I don't know if I will watch. I really didn't like the 2013 at all, did you Jack'd? I didn't like the housemates. I am loving Big Brother UK though!

Yes, I liked it a lot. Which one are you referring to? The one with Heidi & Spencer or the one with Courtney Stodden and Dustin Diamond? I didn't care too much for the Heidi & Spencer one though.

I loved Charlotte and was thrilled she won. I also enjoyed watching Lauren, she was such an enigma and the way she fell down all the time LOL. I thought Carol was a drunken mess, but a hilarious one. I thought Mario was wonderful eye candy and apparently so did Courtney lol.

I know this OT, but did anyone watch the special on E! about Heidi and Spencer? It was actually good. I guess losing millions on frivolous things humbled them. They seemed sincere. They mentioned being on Celeb BB etc., I want to say they said that show changed them, but I'm not sure if that's what I heard because I was doing something else at the time and only caught a bit of it. Anyway, I disliked them but I might watch them if they ever got a reality show. They weren't as annoying as they used to be and they seem to see things in a more responsible way.

Just wondering if anyone else watched it. Maybe they'll re-air it during the holidays. Or maybe not, since it seems they do marathons of the Kardashians all the time instead.

_________________"Dude, it's not stalking. It's caring enough about someone to learn things about them they won't tell you themselves."---from tv show Chuck

Thanks, Jack'd. When I went to the site, it said, "HD video codec for streaming in 720p is missing. Install best HD TV Player."

Is that what you mean by Video 2? I'm not that tech savvy, LOL.

It was very annoying, I had to keep closing all that crazy pop up crap. Then I clicked on the Video 2 which is right underneath the video. I think Video 1 is HD yes, and my computer couldn't handle that.

Jack'd, I am doing pretty good. I had a "total knee revision" meaning a knee replacement was replaced. It is going to take much longer to heal than a "first" replacement. Probably won't be able to drive for at least 4 weeks.

_________________We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989

Jack'd, I am doing pretty good. I had a "total knee revision" meaning a knee replacement was replaced. It is going to take much longer to heal than a "first" replacement. Probably won't be able to drive for at least 4 weeks.

OUCH!! My husband's good friend just had them both done at once, nuts!! Went to see him in rehab, looked like someone took a baseball bat to his legs, terrible. He's coming along but he said if he knew then what he knows now, he wouldn't have done it, like he had a choice lol.

Stay well and keep exercising that knee, you need to get yourself back on that dance floor

Jack'd, I am doing pretty good. I had a "total knee revision" meaning a knee replacement was replaced. It is going to take much longer to heal than a "first" replacement. Probably won't be able to drive for at least 4 weeks.

OUCH!! My husband's good friend just had them both done at once, nuts!! Went to see him in rehab, looked like someone took a baseball bat to his legs, terrible. He's coming along but he said if he knew then what he knows now, he wouldn't have done it, like he had a choice lol.

Stay well and keep exercising that knee, you need to get yourself back on that dance floor

This sounds painful. Yikes.

_________________"Dude, it's not stalking. It's caring enough about someone to learn things about them they won't tell you themselves."---from tv show Chuck

Probably not lol. I only know of Katie Price because she's big in the UK and her ex husband, Alex Reid won CBB one year. Also, Linda Nolan is the sister of Colleen, she was on CBB last season and came in 2nd.

I tried looking all over for a you tube of the show, and there isn't any. Jokers posted one, but it was quickly changed not viewable for the US.

I watched the Launch and the first day in the house. I think this season is going to be great!! I love Evander, I think he's so cool and I like Ollie too. Dappy, wth? he's a bit strange. The hand cuff twist was a little awkward.

Jasmine is a hot mess!! I read that Lee & Casey already kissed oy!!

Six are already up for eviction, they were nominated as pairs. We don't know yet if one will go, or they will go together.

Up for eviction -

Spoiler:

Is it that time already? Big Brother has spoken and we have our first batch of potential evictees.

Casey, Lee, Dappy, Liz, Evander and Luisa are the names in the frame but let's look back at how they got there.

Linda and Jim, the first cuffed couple through the doors of the CBB 2014 House, were tasked by BB to pick a pair to unchain. They chose Dappy and Liz without realising that they'd handed the duo a poisoned chalice. The rapper and the columnist became the inaugural nominees.

Two sets of housemates earned themselves immunity by performing well in tasks – Jim and Linda told the best stories during The Building Blocks of Celebrity task and housemates voted that they deserved a reprieve. Sam and Jasmine scored highest during the In Your Head task, also potential eviction.

This left three couples to negotiate Day 3's Tangle task. Lionel and Ollie beat off the competition leaving Evander and Luisa and Casey and Lee facing the public vote.

Fans of the American version of Big Brother are no strangers to controversy, but in the current iteration of the UK show it was based on, things are playing out quite differently. On Sunday night’s broadcast of Celebrity Big Brother UK, boxer Evander Holyfield expressed his views on homosexuality to former Apprentice UK star Luisa Zissman, views which included comparing homosexuality to a physical handicap that can be fixed. He was then warned, on the air, by the show’s producers, about his “unacceptable language.”

Lounging in bed, Zissman asked Holyfield if there are any gay boxers, and Holyfield replied that there probably were, but none openly. “I think it’s good to be open like that,” Zissman said. “It’s normal.”

This led Holyfield to opine that homosexuality is “not normal,” that it makes no difference if you’re born that way. “If you are born, and your leg is turned this way, you go to the doctor and get it turned right back,” he said.

Zissman tried to end the conversation, but Holyfield restated his analogy to physical disabilities, and said of homosexuality that “Yes, it is a choice.”

Over the summer, Big Brother fans were “treated” to a barrage of racist, homophobic, and just generally sickening remarks on the show’s live feed, and while the show’s handling of the comments was superficial, at best, there were no attempts made to silence them, since that is sort of the point of the show: to observe people in a contrived situation.

On the UK version of the show, though, contestants are appraised of “rules regarding unacceptable language and behavior,” so Holyfield was taken aside and warned by a producer in the show’s confessional room. “You expressed the view that being gay was not normal and could be fixed. Whilst Big Brother realizes these are the views you hold, they are not the views held by many people in society, and expressing these views will be seen as offensive to many people.”

Holyfield explained that he’d forgotten about the rule (although Luisa did try to remind him), and was just telling her his opinion.

“Big Brother does not tolerate the use of offensive language, and must therefore warn you to consider, very carefully, the effect expressing such views may have, and the harm and offense you may cause by repeating these views inside the house,” the omniscient voice replied.

“Okay, then,” Holyfield responded.

Whatever you think of Holyfield’s views, or whether such a warning would ever have been issued on an American show (it obviously would not), most of the producer’s explanation ceases to make any sense when viewed in the context of this next clip. It’s a sort of verbal essay on “finger-banging” by actress Jasmine Waltz that included her asking rapper/musician Dappy “Have you ever tried a finger in your asshole?” and insisting, graphically, that he would love it, and remarking, of two male contestants, “They are clearly really upset about their anals.”:

The best part of that clip is, of course, the punctuation of that conversation with a genteel “Would you like to retire?”

Now, the relative merits of finger-banging aside, that conversation certainly qualifies as potentially “offensive to many people,” and as “not the views held by many people in society.”

It is true, though, that there’s arguably a potential harm in Holyfield’s comments, in that so-called gay reparative therapy, which is banned in some states (but not the UK), is considered harmful by the psychiatric community. However, that message is never delivered by anyone on the show. Had the conversation been allowed to play out, or failing that, had the producers explained this on-camera to Holyfield and their viewers, they all might have learned something. Surely, that’s at least as important as a demonstration of finger-banging.

Oh boy ... being gay is a "handicap" that can be fixed?Let me guess ... Holyfield is a member of some kind of fundamentalist religion? (Probably one that adheres to selective biblical literalism.) He should have been handcuffed to that duck guy Phil Robertson. They're both almost cartoonish in their stupidity.

Oh boy ... being gay is a "handicap" that can be fixed?Let me guess ... Holyfield is a member of some kind of fundamentalist religion? (Probably one that adheres to selective biblical literalism.) He should have been handcuffed to that duck guy Phil Robertson. They're both almost cartoonish in their stupidity.

Oh my lol, anyone watching? This is shaping up to be one hell of a train wreck. Lee is a piglet boy, glad he got boos, put him in his place. So much sexual frustration and drama for only 4 days!! I love Ollie, I wish I could vote. Watch, the Brits are going to vote out all the characters and leave us with Linda, Jim & Lionel.